Terrified, 2017. Directed by Demian Rugna. Starring Agustín Rittano, Elvira Onetto, George Lewis, Julieta Vallina, and Maxi Ghione. SYNOPSIS: A husband returns home to find his wife terrified to enter the bathroom because there are voices coming from the pipes. Voices promising to kill her. As she turns into a bloody human pinball, their entire […]
Arrow Video FrightFest Review – The Golem (2018)
The Golem, 2018. Directed by Doron and Yoav Paz. Starring Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich, Brynie Furstenberg, and Alexey Tritenko. SYNOPSIS: A woman creates a golem to defend her town but when her attachment to it grows, so does her unwillingness to destroy it. Every golem story needs a character who thinks they can evade […]
Arrow Video FrightFest Review – Climax (2018)
Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude Gajan Maull, Giselle Palmer, and Taylor Kastle. SYNOPSIS: When a contemporary dance troupe have wrapped rehearsal for their 90s infused choreographed set-piece, they decide to throw a party to celebrate. What they don’t know is that someone has spiked the […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – He’s Out There (2018)
He’s Out There, 2018. Directed by Quinn Lasher. Starring Yvonne Strahovski, Justin Bruening, Abigail Pniowsky, Anna Pniowsky, and Julian Bailey. SYNOPSIS: On holiday at a remote Canadian lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath. For ‘John’ has […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot, 2018. Directed by Robert D. Krzykowski. Starring Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Ron Livingston, Caitlin FitzGerald, and Larry Miller. SYNOPSIS: Decades after ending World War II by assassinating Adolf Hitler in an undercover operation so covert it never existed, unsung American hero Calvin Barr is called upon […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – What Keeps You Alive (2018)
What Keeps You Alive, 2018. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Brittany Allen, Hannah Emily Anderson, Martha MacIsaac, Joey Klein, and Charlotte Lindsay Marron. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives when they find themselves pitted against the most unexpected of adversaries. […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Written and Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Richard Cawthorne, Betty Gabriel, Michael M. Foster, Harrison Gilbertson, and Benedict Hardie. SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – Boar (2018)
Boar, 2018 Directed by Chris Sun. Starring Chris Haywood, Bill Moseley, Steve Bisley, John Jarratt, and Simone Buchanan. SYNOPSIS: In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills […]
Movie Review – Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, 2018. Directed by Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund. Starring Thomas Lennon, Michael Paré, Nelson Franklin, Barbara Crampton, Udo Kier, and Jenny Pellicer. SYNOPSIS: Recently divorced and reeling, Edgar (Thomas Lennon) returns to his childhood home to regroup. Finding a nefarious-looking puppet in his deceased brother’s room, he decides to sell […]
Arrow Video Frightfest Review – Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Incident in a Ghost Land, 2018. Directed by Pascal Laugier. Starring Crystal Reed, Anastasia Phillips, Emilia Jones, Taylor Hickson, and Mylène Farmer. SYNOPSIS: Pauline (French pop icon Mylène Farmer) and her two daughters Beth and Vera inherit a house in the countryside. On the first night in their new home the family are confronted by […]
